Monopolies
What is a monopoly?
A company that controls the entire market for a specific product or industry and has no competitors.
At what age on average did children start working in factories?
5-7
What is the name of the place where most immigrants came into the United States?
Ellis Island, NY
What is progressivism
support for or advocacy of social reform.
A group of American writers who identified with pre-world war I reform and expose writing
Muckrakers
Who owned Standard Oil?
John D. Rockefeller
This organization was formed in 1904 to battle child labor in America
National Child Labor Committee (NCLC)
What is the name for people who hated immigrants for "bringing disease and raising crime rates?"
Nativists
Name the three main presidents that started the progressive era in the US
Wilson, Taft, Roosevelt
Name the act that prohibited the sale of adulterated or misbranded livestock as food and ensured sanitary slughtering and processing of livestock
Federal Meat Inspection Act
Who owned the major railroads and shipping businesses?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
The National Child Labor Committee was founded by who?
Edgar Gardner Murphy
This was the first law to restrict immigration into the US:
Chinese Exclusion Act
This president created the National Park Service(NPS)
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
Who passed the meat inspection act of 1906
Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
What was the act called that busted all the trusts?
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
How did the great depression help end child labor?
Adults needed jobs more than children which led to less child labor
In the beginning, what foreign area did most of the immigrants come from?
Western and Northern Europe
This president created the Federal Reserve
Woodrow Wilson
Who wrote The Jungle, the book describing the horrors of the food industry
Upton Sinclair
Who was the president in office when the Clayton Anti-Trust Act went into effect?
Woodrow Wilson
Modern day child labor is still allowed in what industry?
Agriculture
Famine
What was the third party created by Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election
Progressive Party also known as the Bull Moose Party
This person exposed the monopoly abuses of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller
Ida Tarbell